The American people spoke and we've finally arrived to the logical conclusion government's responsibility is to take care of its people in an equal and fair manner.

White males should be banned from voting ever again because of crimes against women/minorities/gays/religions other than Catholic and athiests/the environment and everything else for so many thousands of years.

With a little more effort, the constitution will be dead and there will be no more impediments to finally taking care of the reparations due to the people who've been oppressed/taken advantage of/enslaved for so many generations by the white male.

Equality is just around the corner!

I accept this now. As a white guy, I won't feel right unless I get punished for the rest of my life. Who's going to lead the first white male labor camp?

To be politically correct, they'll probably assign that task to the various American Indian tribes......"The secret o' life is enjoying the passage of time." 1977, James Taylor
"With cats." 2018, kittyman

Well that's the problem we're going to fix! I could start talking about the tax code, but you wouldn't consider that punishment yet until I have to sell my house at below market value and move into a trailer park.

Guy, that makes no sense, what ever price you sell at is the market price.

Well that's the problem we're going to fix! I could start talking about the tax code, but you wouldn't consider that punishment yet until I have to sell my house at below market value and move into a trailer park.

Guy, that makes no sense, what ever price you sell at is the market price.

See! There I go again. I don't even realize I'm doing it. I do it without even thinking. Below market value... that's thinking like a racists white guy. Is it even possible for me to learn?

The American people spoke and we've finally arrived to the logical conclusion government's responsibility is to take care of its people in an equal and fair manner.

Of course the rest of your rant is made up nonsense, but everybody knows that, so I won't bother with the details. Suffice it to say that your resentment of the possibility that groups other than white males do not suffer abject poverty, and that the most industrious and talented can even have the chance to succeed despite not being white males, reveals something very ugly about your character. You have none.

The abject poverty and suffering here in the states is the worst I've ever seen. If we don't widen our safety nets, broaden its base, and throw life preservers out in the water RIGHT NOW, people will die.

People dying in the states is the last thing I want to see.

That is the truth. Worst it has been and getting worse. The Bush policies are just now beginning to show their effects and it won't be possible to reverse them for another 4 years.

Instead of 47% of the people not paying income tax this needs to jump up to 75% of the people not paying income tax. There are far too many poor who are being hurt by having to pay income tax. We can help them right away be getting them off the income tax rolls. They should all be eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit and the base amount of that credit should be a living wage. Amerika is the greatest country on earth, it can afford it.

Ah yes, Gary in sarcasm mode. One way to increase the proportion of folks paying taxes -- pay living wages to workers among the 47%. Note of course that a fair sized piece of 'the 47%' are retirees living on modest pensions and social security and thus not paying *income* taxes.

The interesting part is no one is able to say when affirmative action will no longer be required. The answer is the same as a Justice said about what is pornography. "I know it when I see it."

50% of the U.S. population are women
U.S. Women on average earn 7% less than men
they make up just 3% of the chief executives running Fortune 500 companies in the US
Just 90 of the 535 seats in congress are held by women (16.8%)